When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.